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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 19, 2026

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A steam train, antique train, nostalgia, lighthouse

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
    He then pointed kernelistas to the project’s documentation
  2. Uptime Perils and Malicious Packets [original]
    We don't use "cloud computing", we do our best to avoid outsourcing
  3. Peter Neumann has died
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  4. Turning an $80 Android tablet into a Debian Linux PC
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  5. stocksTUI – check stock prices, crypto, news, and historical charts
    This is free and open source software
  6. LibrePlan 1.6.0 Released With Better Collaboration Tools and 15 New Languages
    The open source web-based project management platform adds email workflows
  7. today's leftovers
    GNU/Linux focused leftovers
  8. Distributions and Operating Systems: OSNews, BSD, and More
    some more links
  9. Education and Sharing Leftovers
    FOSS and more
  10. Richard Stallman's Next Talk and SFC, Which Tries to Cancel Him, on Copyleft
    Licensing / Legal
  11. KDE: 55,041,902 Lines of Code and Joining KDE's Amharic Translation Effort
    KDE picks
  12. Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Saloon, mintCast, and More
    new video and audio clips/shows
  13. Linux Source Code Shows Intel Panther Lake Plans
    as usual
  14. Programming Leftovers
    Development related picks
  15. New Release of EasyOS and Further Work
    Latest on EasyOS
  16. today's howtos
    Instructionals/Technical posts
  17. LLM Slop / Plagiarism Versus Free Software
    3 stories
  18. Open Hardware/Modding: Bambu Lab Versus AGPL, ESP32, and More
    hardware centric news
  19. Canonical/Ubuntu Family: Rescuezilla 2.6.2 and Ubuntu 26.04
    Ubuntu leftovers
  20. Android Leftovers
    BOOX Go Gen 2 Lumi review: E-Ink Android tablet with stunning hardware and rich software
  21. This open-source chip design could do for hardware what Linux did for software
    As I write this, there are basically two types of CPU that matter: x86 and ARM
  22. This ultra-lightweight Linux OS just saved my Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap
    Built on a rock-solid Debian base, Q4OS uses a forgotten desktop environment to breathe new life into bloated, older hardware
  23. Free and Open Source Software, and Review
    There are a few packages to install in CachyOS before I’m ready to test software designed to use the NPU
  24. Firefox 151 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
    Firefox 151 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for local profile backups on Linux, the general availability of local network access restrictions, and many other changes.
  25. Proton-CachyOS 11 pushes Linux gaming further with OptiScaler integration
    The Linux community has made significant progress in terms of gaming
  26. Linux gets Nvidia Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag on any GPU
    Big news for Linux gamers, especially eSports players
  27. I ditched laggy Linux remote desktop for this browser-based setup
    I decided to give the open-source remote access gateway Apache Guacamole a try
  28. Free and Open Source Software
    This is free and open source software
  29. GNU/Linux HowTos, K Desktop Environment vs GNOME, and More
    a handful of recent Valnet articles
  30. Finding Software Replacements in GNU/Linux
    3 new examples
  31. GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: PuterOS, Lubuntu, and More
    Recent Valnet articles, inc. Lubuntu rave
  32. Review: Sylve on FreeBSD
    Sylve is in its fairly early stages and has just recently been added to the FreeBSD "latest" repository
  33. Recent Proxmox and TrueNAS Articles
    Managing one's clusters
  34. Extrox Linux: Audiophile-Friendly MX Spin with an Arch Twin
    From the MX Linux community comes Extrox, a duo of Xfce-based spins—one MX
  35. Using Raspberry Pi as One's Main Desktop, Turning Raspberry Pis Into a Powerful Docker Swarm Cluster
    2 recent Valnet articles
  36. Stable kernels: Linux 7.0.9, Linux 6.18.32, Linux 6.12.90, and Linux 6.6.140
    I'm announcing the release of the 7.0.9 kernel
  37. Fish Shell [original]
    Yesterday we spent about 5 hours on the shells and fish
  38. Today in Techrights
    Some of the latest articles
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    1033 /n/2026/05/12/Sasha_Levin_GAFAM_Wants_Killswitch_for_Linux_the_Kernel.shtml
    1030 /n/2026/04/28/Fedora_Linux_44_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s_New.shtml
    1026 /n/2026/05/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    1007 /n/2026/05/13/KDE_Receives_Over_1M_from_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_for_Software_Deve.shtml
    926 /n/2026/05/14/Fragnesia_Is_Yet_Another_Local_Privilege_Escalation_Flaw_in_Lin.shtml
    852 /n/2026/05/14/AGL_combines_Xen_Zephyr_and_Linux_containers_in_new_SDV_platfor.shtml

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